National Wine Day 2018
This Thursday is National Wine Day and we're celebrating by serving all bottles of Chardonnay, Cabernet, Sauvignon, Merlot, White Zinfandel, or carafe of Sangria for only $14.99 ALL DAY! #nationalwineday
Fun Facts & History (from our friends at www.holidayscalendar.com)
The smell of an older wine is called a bouquet; the smell of a younger wine is the aroma
Wine only has 1/10th the antioxidants of soy sauce
The states of California, Florida, and New York lead the U.S in wine consumption
Wine has been produced in southwestern France since Roman times
The Romans mixed lead with wine to help preserve it and give it a sweeter taste
Ice wine (known as Eiswein), made by frozen grapes, was invented by the Germans
Not all wines improve with age
More wine grapes are planted than any other crop in the world
Grapes for dark red wines grow in warmer climates, while white wine grapes grow in cooler ones
Global warming may change where wine can be grown in the future
National Wine Day – not to be confused with the holiday National Drink Wine Day – is a holiday which is celebrated annually in the United States on May 25th. The purpose of this day is very simple. It’s a day to buy wine, appreciate wine and enjoy the history of wine. After all, this alcoholic beverage has been a part of human civilization for at least 8,000 years.
While the history of National Wine Day seems to be obscured by the fog of time, scientists do have a pretty good idea when wine started being produced and consumed. They found a winery that produced wine in 4300 BC. This winery was in the Areni cave in Vayouts Dzor in Armenia.
Archaeologists call it a winery because they discovered not only cups and jars for holding wine, but other equipment such as wine presses and fermentation vats that were used in the production of wine. If that’s enough evidence for you to call it a winery, then you might want to know there was also the seeds and vines of Vitis vinifera located on site. Before this site was discovered, the oldest known wine making could only be traced back to about 3100 BC – or about 900 years later than this find – in an Egyptian tomb.
However, after discovering this site, archaeologists believed that wine making probably went back even further than 6,000. In fact, they believe that since the early Armenians had such a grasp of the technology of wine making, then it must go back at least a few hundred more years. What was later discovered though was that winemaking actually goes back 8,000 years. This was confirmed when an 8,000-year-old wine was found in the Caucasus region of Eurasia – in what is now the country of Georgia.
